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Because the parts given to the repair technician who comes to your house may be worse then the ones already in your system.

Take this with a grain of salt though. Those techs only see the broken systems.

This message is brought to you by your somewhat friendly, but angry, third party contracted on-site warranty repair tech for computer manufacturers who shall remain nameless. At least until I find a better job.

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Which is why I build and repair my own. I don't trust you "professionals". lol

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There has been more than one case of large computer manufacturers re-selling refurbished and lower quality non-identical parts - either as retail/new, or used as warranty repair. Acer and Gateway were infamous for it for a while

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Originally posted by OG_ZorvanWhich is why I build and repair my own. I don't trust you "professionals". lol

Every time you change your skull I wonder how long before someone steals it. Since you're no longer posting as enthusiastically as in the past I'm going to guess 3 months this time.

Yes, I have noticed the skull pilfering. lol

I dunno. Maybe I'm mellowing out in my old age.

Maybe.

EA CEO John Riccitiello's on future microtransactions: "When you are six hours into playing Battlefield and you run out of ammo in your clip, and we ask you for a dollar to reload, you're really not very price sensitive at that point in time...We're not gouging, but we're charging."

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on top of that,you have to worry about that professional scamming you..

what you dont know,he can take advantage of,enabling him/her to tap your wallet dry.

kind of like a mechanic..

The vast majority of people you hire to fix your stuff want to do a good job. They like fixing stuff. They don't like breaking other peoples stuff or screwing people over because their boss wants them to upsell an over priced extended warranty. They like educating their customers.

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If you buy a Dell, HP, or any other branded PC the on-site tech will replace the part with exactly the same one.

If you buy a generic serviced computer then most service warranty agreements say that the part installed will be of the same value and performance with an X% margin since genertic computer dealers cannot gurantee that the exact same parts will be available for the entire duration of the warranty, and the service.

BTW if you buy any thing with extended warranty you can expect the same thing, especially when it comes to graphic cards.

If you RMA one of the "old" good 460TI's you could get in the early days you might recieved today a handicapped version just because the manufacturer of your card could not get the same cores any more from NVIDIA.

It happened to me alot, the first time probably when i RMAed a ATI 9500 pro that died in a bad bios flash and got a 9600 Pro which was much much worse since it was basically a 9800 cut in half, after complaining i got a refurbished 9700 pro instead. RMAed OCZ memory sticks, and got simmilar ones with slightly higher latency since the hynix chips that OCZ used to use were not in production any more.

But it can also work the other way i did an RMA once on a GeForce 4600ti which had a life time warranty and got a 9600GT instead(I actually killed the 4600 on purpose since BFG were going out of buisness and announced that they will stop eaccepting RMA's :P), and i got a Pentium Dual Core for an Old P3 which also had a life time warranty.

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on top of that,you have to worry about that professional scamming you..

what you dont know,he can take advantage of,enabling him/her to tap your wallet dry.

kind of like a mechanic..

The vast majority of people you hire to fix your stuff want to do a good job. They like fixing stuff. They don't like breaking other peoples stuff or screwing people over because their boss wants them to upsell an over priced extended warranty. They like educating their customers.

I wonder what you lost this time.

I work as part of an internal IT department for a university. I'm constantly taking systems, replacing parts, rebuilding, and doing exactly this. While there are bad apples everywhere, none of my colleagues would ever try this sort of scamming that you're describing. Ethical issues aside, it would waste time and money for both the customer AND us. Lose-lose.

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Originally posted by Cyrael

I work as part of an internal IT department for a university. I'm constantly taking systems, replacing parts, rebuilding, and doing exactly this. While there are bad apples everywhere, none of my colleagues would ever try this sort of scamming that you're describing. Ethical issues aside, it would waste time and money for both the customer AND us. Lose-lose.

I'd ask if you were hiring but I'm not moving to Virginia. It's a nice place with nice people. It's in the South but it still gets too much snow and it's too close to Washington.

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Made the mistake once (in 2007) to buy a HP computer. Though the computer is still running (it's on my son's room now),, parts indeed are the problem. Lets make a short list of what I found out about that HP computer...

Mainboard (ASUS brand) is custom made and very limited when it comes to expaning memor or upgrading CPU

CPU used is a custom made one. If it breaks down, replacing it yourself is quite hard unless you find a 2nd hand one on eBay

Computer case is custom made and doesn't allow you to simply replace certain parts (card-reader comes to mind)

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on top of that,you have to worry about that professional scamming you..

what you dont know,he can take advantage of,enabling him/her to tap your wallet dry.

kind of like a mechanic..

The vast majority of people you hire to fix your stuff want to do a good job. They like fixing stuff. They don't like breaking other peoples stuff or screwing people over because their boss wants them to upsell an over priced extended warranty. They like educating their customers.

I wonder what you lost this time.

I commend your upbeat enthusiasm on the human race,but thats just not how it is lol...and no,Im not saying everyone is a bad apple either.

Im not sure what you mean by what Ive lost? if youre referring to my computer,I build my own.

Ive seen scamming happen though,there was even a special on the news about it,mainly focusing on Geeksquad.

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Thankfully I know someone to build all mine for free...

Craigslist.... people will hook you up better. Assuming your not looking for a $200 computer (go to walmart then). But if your looking at a rather expensive lets say $400+ computer look on craigslist. People will buy parts based on what you need then charge you $50-$100 to build... really expensive for the time it takes but you can also go buy that computer for 2-4x the cost pre-made.

"I see they watchin' me and takin' notes on my moves, Run up on me it's all I want I ain't got nothin' to lose."

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Thankfully I know someone to build all mine for free...

Craigslist.... people will hook you up better. Assuming your not looking for a $200 computer (go to walmart then). But if your looking at a rather expensive lets say $400+ computer look on craigslist. People will buy parts based on what you need then charge you $50-$100 to build... really expensive for the time it takes but you can also go buy that computer for 2-4x the cost pre-made.

As an added bonus, you get the adrenaline rush of wondering whether you're going to be robbed by the "Craigslist computer guy" and dumped in a drainage ditch somewhere.

EA CEO John Riccitiello's on future microtransactions: "When you are six hours into playing Battlefield and you run out of ammo in your clip, and we ask you for a dollar to reload, you're really not very price sensitive at that point in time...We're not gouging, but we're charging."